Classical Greek drama evolved from religious festivals honoring
... in old age, ragged and blind, cast into exile by his sons, but still accompanied by his faithful daughter Antigonê. It was written when Sophocles was nearly ninety. Oedipus the King is believed to have been first produced in 425 B.C., five years after plague had broken out in Athens. Literary Career ...
... in old age, ragged and blind, cast into exile by his sons, but still accompanied by his faithful daughter Antigonê. It was written when Sophocles was nearly ninety. Oedipus the King is believed to have been first produced in 425 B.C., five years after plague had broken out in Athens. Literary Career ...
Gk theatre.pps
... Aeschylean tragedy is grand, massive, and dignified The language is heavy and often difficult to understand, full of compound forms and complex metaphors. He is still considered by many (as Aristophanes writes about in The Frogs) to be the greatest Greek playwright. Aeschylus' first victory: 484 B.C ...
... Aeschylean tragedy is grand, massive, and dignified The language is heavy and often difficult to understand, full of compound forms and complex metaphors. He is still considered by many (as Aristophanes writes about in The Frogs) to be the greatest Greek playwright. Aeschylus' first victory: 484 B.C ...
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... The Chorus and Atossa lament. Atossa calls up the spirit of her dead husband Darius. Darius tells of how he was defeated by the Athenians at Marathon. He warns that Earth herself is an ally of the Greeks. Darius also warns against reckless pride and descends. Atossa leaves and pledges to accept her ...
... The Chorus and Atossa lament. Atossa calls up the spirit of her dead husband Darius. Darius tells of how he was defeated by the Athenians at Marathon. He warns that Earth herself is an ally of the Greeks. Darius also warns against reckless pride and descends. Atossa leaves and pledges to accept her ...
4th Century BC
... the invention of both tragedy and comedy. For comedy is claimed by the Megarians here in Greece, who say it began among them at the time when they became a democracy [c. 580 BC], and by the Megarians of Sicily on the grounds that the poet Epicharmas came from there and was much earlier than Chionide ...
... the invention of both tragedy and comedy. For comedy is claimed by the Megarians here in Greece, who say it began among them at the time when they became a democracy [c. 580 BC], and by the Megarians of Sicily on the grounds that the poet Epicharmas came from there and was much earlier than Chionide ...
Greek drama
... First important writer of Greek drama. Considered the “father of Greek tragedy.” First entered Dionysia (contest) in about 500 BC. First won in 484 BC thereafter he won first prize 13 times. 458 BC—his masterpiece—The Oresteia. Known to have written over 90 plays, only 7 survive. Contribut ...
... First important writer of Greek drama. Considered the “father of Greek tragedy.” First entered Dionysia (contest) in about 500 BC. First won in 484 BC thereafter he won first prize 13 times. 458 BC—his masterpiece—The Oresteia. Known to have written over 90 plays, only 7 survive. Contribut ...
Aeschylus` Oresteia
... Pelops, but involving most notably Atreus's killing of his brother Thyestes's children and feeding them to him in a gruesome stew. Since Atreus had invited his brother over to feast under the guise of welcoming back the defeated party to a sovereignty dispute, he's guilty not only of spilling family ...
... Pelops, but involving most notably Atreus's killing of his brother Thyestes's children and feeding them to him in a gruesome stew. Since Atreus had invited his brother over to feast under the guise of welcoming back the defeated party to a sovereignty dispute, he's guilty not only of spilling family ...
The Origins of Western Theater File
... sort of change or understanding. The Oresteia deals with characters from the Trojan War. In the first play, King Agamemnon is murdered by his wife, Clytemnestra. He has sacrificed their daughter, earning Clytemnestra’s hatred, but she also has selfish reasons for her action. In the second play, thei ...
... sort of change or understanding. The Oresteia deals with characters from the Trojan War. In the first play, King Agamemnon is murdered by his wife, Clytemnestra. He has sacrificed their daughter, earning Clytemnestra’s hatred, but she also has selfish reasons for her action. In the second play, thei ...
Greek Playwrights
... This collective name for the trilogy containing Agamemnon, The Libation Bearers, and Eumenides reveals the stories of Agamemnon, Clytemnestra, and Orestes. Agamemnon: When Agamemnon is notified that the fall of Troy is imminent, his wife, Clytemnestra, rejoices; however, their daughter Iphigeneia di ...
... This collective name for the trilogy containing Agamemnon, The Libation Bearers, and Eumenides reveals the stories of Agamemnon, Clytemnestra, and Orestes. Agamemnon: When Agamemnon is notified that the fall of Troy is imminent, his wife, Clytemnestra, rejoices; however, their daughter Iphigeneia di ...
Lecture 7
... CHAPTER 6: The Rivalries of the Greek City-States, Sources for the Decades after the Persian Wars, Aftermath of the Persian Wars, The Birth of Tragedy, Aeschylus and the Oresteia, CHAPTER 7: Sophocles, Euripides ...
... CHAPTER 6: The Rivalries of the Greek City-States, Sources for the Decades after the Persian Wars, Aftermath of the Persian Wars, The Birth of Tragedy, Aeschylus and the Oresteia, CHAPTER 7: Sophocles, Euripides ...
Aeschylus
Aeschylus (/ˈiːskɨləs/ or /ˈɛskɨləs/; Greek: Αἰσχύλος Aiskhulos; Ancient Greek: [ai̯s.kʰý.los]; c. 525/524 – c. 456/455 BC) was an ancient Greek tragedian. He is also the first whose plays still survive; the others are Sophocles and Euripides. He is often described as the father of tragedy: critics and scholars' knowledge of the genre begins with his work, and understanding of earlier tragedies is largely based on inferences from his surviving plays. According to Aristotle, he expanded the number of characters in plays to allow conflict among them whereas characters previously had interacted only with the chorus.Only seven of his estimated seventy to ninety plays have survived, and there is a longstanding debate regarding his authorship of one of these plays, Prometheus Bound, which some believe his son Euphorion actually wrote. Fragments of some other plays have survived in quotes and more continue to be discovered on Egyptian papyrus, often giving us surprising insights into his work. He was probably the first dramatist to present plays as a trilogy; his Oresteia is the only ancient example of the form to have survived.At least one of his plays was influenced by the Persians' second invasion of Greece (480-479 BC). This work, The Persians, is the only surviving classical Greek tragedy concerned with contemporary events (very few of that kind were ever written), and a useful source of information about its period. The significance of war in Ancient Greek culture was so great that Aeschylus' epitaph commemorates his participation in the Greek victory at Marathon while making no mention of his success as a playwright. Despite this, Aeschylus' work - particularly the Oresteia - is acclaimed by today's literary academics.